Abstract: Facing the new situation of higher physical education in China, the paper analyzes and elaborates the reform and development of physical education institutes and universities. With reference to the comprehensive educational reform in Chengdu Sport Institute, the paper proposes that special (professional) sports institutes must: coordinate the relationship between “sports feature” and “multidisciplinary coordinated development” while firmly taking “sport” as their fundamental feature in talent training; further upgrade physical education students’ professional skills and specialized abilities and enhance students’ quality of education to win their discourse right in sports industry; meet the society’s demands for diversified sports services and closely rely on specific athletic platforms to promote the realization of the characteristic of “permeability of sports and medicine, combination of sports and arts”; further innovate their talent-training mode to turn their characteristics into their advantage and promote the multidisciplinary coordinated development.

Key words: Special Sports Institutes, Educational Characteristics, Multidisciplinary Coordinated Development, Comprehensive Reform of Higher Education, Talent Training